AUSTRALIAN GIRLS

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1932, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN GIRLS

NEW ZEALANDER’S PRAISE. ! MEN REFLECT DEPRESSION. Sydney, May 25. Mr. Keith Bryant, a young New Zealand artist, who, after having' spent a year in Sydney, is returning .to. London to resume contracts with English illus trated newspapers, spoke highly or tiie Australian girls, in an interview at hremantle, but of Australia’s menfolk, sartorially, he formed an opinion which, unfortunately, is fairly general among visi°Mr. Bryant gave it as his opinion that between 70 and 80 per cent, of the girls in Australia were worthy to sit a? artists’ models. They were of good physique: thev carried themselves gracefully, and “they dressed with good taste. “They are,” he added, “alive to the colourful atmosphere' with which they are surrounded, and respond to it, but the men are drab and colourless, with something of the characteristic m this respect that typifies men in Europe. In the clothes that they wear, the men of Sydney, taking them generally, appear to reflect the depressed state or that city.” The tendency toward the Americanisation of Sydney did not escape Mr. Brvaut’s eye, just as it does escape the eyes of other visitors who are sensitive to impression. “Sydney,” Mr. Bryant observed, entirely different from the other capitals, where home life predominates. Sydney is very superficial. Night clubs, cocktail parties and the beaches appear to be the main interests in the life of Sydney people.”